Associate Director - CTF Clinical Results Systems

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Eli Lilly Cork is made up of a talented diverse team of over 2000 employees across 60 nationalities who deliver innovative solutions that add value across a variety of Business Service functions including Finance, Information Technology, Medical, Clinical Trials and more.
Eli Lilly Cork offers a premium workspace across our campus in Little Island, complete with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on-site parking.
Inhouse People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our 'Live Your BEST Life' wellbeing initiatives are just some of the holistic benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues.

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We cater for all dimensions ensuring inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities and gender, with four pillars:
EnAble, Age & Culture, LGBTQ+ and GIN-Gender Inclusion Network.
EnAble, our pillar for people with disabilities and those that care for them, partners with the Access Lilly initiative to make our physical and digital environment accessible and inclusive for all.

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The Associate Director, Clinical Trial Foundations (CTF), will serve as the subject matter expert for clinical systems supporting clinical development.
In this role, you will define and execute implementation plans to deliver on the system strategies, integrations and improvements.
The Associate Director is responsible for collaborating with business partners to enable development, implementation and support of streamlined, clear and compliant systems to support clinical development.
This role will also work closely with external parties including vendors, industry authorities and related organizations to optimize Lilly's capabilities to support business and customer-focused, efficient clinical development.

Clinical Information Systems Expertise

• Understand business strategies, processes and technology as it relates to clinical development
• Serve as domain expert to ensure data, process and/or technology interfaces are optimized across other clinical information systems that are integrated with these systems
• Support internal audits and external inspections
• Identify key functional capability gaps early enough to help ensure robust processes in place to meet team needs and/or manage expectations to avoid downstream delivery delays
• Ensure data from different sources are consistent and easily consumable
• Map collected data into predictable source/raw data - Accountable for specifications for raw data at study level ensuring consistent, standardized and easily consumable data
• Articulate programming needs to complete normalization of data from various sources into clinical data warehouse
• Understand inconsistencies in data and provide feedback to standards team

Project Management

• Define, lead and execute implementation plans to deliver on technology strategies and improvements
• Develop critical success factors for pilots/projects and monitor progress to ensure clear criteria exists to enable decision making
• Identify, monitor and communicate global customer (internal and external) needs/requirements related to process and/or technology performance and improvements
• Lead organizational change, communication planning and training initiatives
• Provide guidance and consulting into forecasting expenses
• Identify project implementation and system execution risks and raise issues appropriately
• Lead progress reporting activities and system metrics to leadership, process owners and end users

Partnership

• Partner with process owners, leadership, Quality and Information Technology to ensure capable, integrated and efficient system usage across the portfolio
• Actively participate in shared learning across the team
• Work with vendors to improve customer experience and efficiencies

• Bachelor's degree preferably in science, IT or health related field, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5 - 8 years experience with at least 3 years in medical, clinical data management, clinical drug development, or clinical information flow
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to communicate clearly and succinctly with team members and leadership.
• Strong problem-solving skills; able to anticipate and recognise problems, diagnose root causes and take corrective action to prevent recurrence within the team.
• Excellent self-management and organisational skills; able to manage workload, set personal priorities and adjust as needed.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Flexibility to adjust quickly and effectively to frequent change and altered priorities

• Experience in clinical development systems as well as current and evolving technologies to support clinical development and clinical data management
• Knowledge and/or experience in project management and organizational change with Lilly staff and external parties including vendors, industry experts and related organizations
• Knowledge working in the therapeutic area of Oncology.
• Good interpersonal and leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong business insight
• Demonstrated strength in logical thought, problem solving ability and critical thinking
• Ability to communicate and influence across functional boundaries
• Ability and experience in positively handling and resolving conflict
• Flexibility in approach; able to adjust to unexpected business opportunities while also being a catalyst for change
• Knowledge of regulatory and quality requirements governing clinical development
• 10% or less travel

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